The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1887-08-03
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puzzles the special correspondent
The shautaugua season has now really
opsne.i. ard crowds are arriving By every
steamer. At these times the docks ar COW
cred hy huge piles of trunks-old trunks.
new trunks. large trunks and small trunks
travelling bags, yaIi=e> and boxes. trunk
Is Welcome sight. r. shows that is owner
L not transient hut intends q shorter Or
= ionger stay limited only by the time OF
pocket
lumber, which In few days viii assume
the proportions of eostags for above all.
chautaHqna i growing, and nearly every
steamer is sure to bring its complement Of
prepared boards and lamber
BHi Of course to the thousands through
ont the opuntry who are pursuing the Chan
tauqua courses OF study, the schools form
the principal and most interesting attraction.
With their hundreds of busy workers. and
enthusiastic directors, they are accomplish
ing the most fafering results. Many oftlss
classes, and those among the most valuable
are free The psychology. DIR. Noah H.
Davis; the spanish. Or. Vim. J, Knapp
and other CLASSES. Ars open and free to any
one The study of the science and exper-
fences Of the mind itself. under such an in
ssrucior as Dr. DAVIS, is absorbing and in
tensely interesting To the truly thOa.htiai
man there can be no study more fraught
with interest and profit than thai OF the
workings Of the Mind or Ear Again, an
other special course in the curriculum OF the
College of Liberal Arts. which Is doing much
aud which L destined to do much more, l.
the School Of Bushes and Practical Affalrs
In this department one may lean the oriin-
AIRY forms and roufines of business and
bookkeeping. etc, in tive or three weeks
time, hence being the cheapest plaoe in the
country IN which Ia learn these branches.
Prof. Charles X, Wells. principal OF these
eounsss in tbs syrasu-e city schools, Is at the
head OF this department. The Chantanqua
methods, by which everything here Is tanglf
are the enlightened results ofyears ofearnest
toll, patient experiments and enthusiastic
Investigations
For the sucoess already attending the diff
erent departments too much credit cannot
be accorded the principal, Or. Harper OF
Yale Prof K, 5 Holmes, the Registrar, and
their able corps of instructors.
Every man in the faculty represent pre-
eminently the best succes in his line, and no
expense has been spared by the Assembly,
10 srRre only the b,st known and most sue
csssfuI teachers in the country. The result
has been that during the summer session %
the college one may study under the person.
al supervision OF and aid of the able>t eiucsi-
tor in the world Dr. Harper. Of Vale; Prof
Ballanfine, of Ocerlin; Prof. Edwards. at
Chamberlain Institute Prof sara A Emer-
spn. OF Wellesley Dr. Richard r. Ely, of
Sohn Hopkins Prof Holmes, ofChautauqra
University Prof Lvon, of Harvard etc.
Thus We have sort Of cosmopolitan uni
versity, combining all of the features Of the
bs-t known colleges. Yale, Harvard Syracuse,
etc.
Among the special or new Departments in
ausgarte.i this season are Departments in
sssan,Iinovian, Indo European, Zend and
soihie. Assyrian Arabic and syriae. Egyp-
tain. and social science, etc.